Cave

The latest opera from composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake, the award-winning team behind Between Worlds.

Most recent performance

There are currently no scheduled performances of Cave.
It was last on stage 20–23 June 2018 as part of the Summer 2017/18 season.

Background

Composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake collaborate again on a new work, Cave, for London Sinfonietta and The Royal Opera. Davies is a leading figure in British contemporary music. She burst onto the stage in 2015 with her operatic debut Between Worlds, a collaboration with Drake inspired by the events of 9/11. For The Independent the opera ‘announce[d] Tansy Davies as the most original new voice in the game’. The opera went on to win Davies the prestigious British Composer Award.

In the cavernous space of The Printworks, Davies and Drake’s new music theatre work follows a grieving man’s quest for survival and renewal, in a dystopian future of desert shopping malls and melting ancient glaciers. Desperate to connect one last time with his lost daughter, he enters a dark cave, and so begins his journey into the underworld of spirits.

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Guidance

Accessibility

Printworks London is a fully accessible building. Visitors with access requirements are advised to book directly via the venue and make their access requirements known at the point of booking – especially wheelchair users or visitors who cannot climb stairs

Please note that the Royal Opera House Box Office will not handle accessible booking for these performances